Pinterest cited the contribution of quality content from the business community as a reason for launching these business-specific accounts:

"Thousands of businesses have become a part of our community, giving great ideas, content, and inspiration to people on Pinterest. Whether it's Anthropologie sharing awesome clothes, Whole Foods sharing tasty recipes, the Smithsonian sharing fascinating collections, or Amazon making products easy to pin, many of us have been inspired on Pinterest by businesses."

So ... do you already have a Pinterest account you want to convert into a business account? Convinced today's the day to set up your Pinterest business account for the first time? Want to know what the new terms of service specifically for businesses say? Well have we got the blog post for you! Read on to learn all that and more, you pinning maniacs, you :-)

Anyone can have impressive numbers. You can buy followers, email lists, likes, comments, even website visitors.

Unfortunately, all of the questions are about numbers. Just numbers. Instead, they should be about the people behind the numbers because there is a big difference between 1,000 real, engaged, and loyal fans and 100,000 robots.

So, if you're a brand (or someone looking for a person to add value to your online summit) stop looking at numbers. It's time to look beyond vanity metrics to start seeing a possible return on investment for working with online influencers.

With the rise in the use of technology and the internet within the past decade, social media is becoming increasingly more popular. Unfortunately, so are cyberattacks, and social media just happens to be an appealing place for hackers to lurk in an attempt to hijack your personal information.

With the following tips, you can avoid Social Malware and you’ll be much safer online..

As marketers, we've gotten quite good at evolving our playbooks when it comes to SEO. But the changes we've seen to this point are nothing compared to what's coming next.

We are in the early stages of a new era of search -- an era tied closely to more sophisticated patterns such as mobile, social, and voice search, among other things. And for the first time this isn't just a matter of adding a new chapter to our SEO strategy, it's a matter of creating entire new playbooks.

To this point, SEO has predominantly revolved around browser-based search engines. More precisely, it's been linked directly to Google. That's where all the search activity has been. That's where content consumption has historically started. Not anymore.

Since the creation of the first web page, the connected world has been constantly changing at a rapid pace, speeding its way through Web 2.0 and propelling us into the future. That future is now. The Internet of Things (IoT) is taking shape, and it's ushering in the third major evolution of the internet.

Living in Europe while most of my family lives in the United States I tend to think it pulls us closer together, BUT on the other hand side I've seen how smart phones can interfere with good communication with the people in my own house if we allow it to happen.

Twitter went into an uproar Friday after a BuzzFeed report that the social network was on the brink introducing an algorithmic, more Facebook-style feed. Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey tried to calm fears this morning in a series of tweets, but he did not deny the substance of the report.

More than 74 percent of adults use a social networking site. Of those, 78 percent say a company’s social media posts influenced their buying decisions. Your organization cannot miss the chance to influence almost 80 percent of its market.

Unfollowers is the best app to manage your Twitter and Instagram community, used by over 8 million people and its free. We help unfollow spam, inactive, fake following, and help you find and follow those who brings value to your network.

Sharing your scoops to your social media accounts is a must to distribute your curated content. Not only will it drive traffic and leads through your content, but it will help show your expertise with your followers.

Integrating your curated content to your website or blog will allow you to increase your website visitors’ engagement, boost SEO and acquire new visitors. By redirecting your social media traffic to your website, Scoop.it will also help you generate more qualified traffic and leads from your curation work.

Distributing your curated content through a newsletter is a great way to nurture and engage your email subscribers will developing your traffic and visibility.
Creating engaging newsletters with your curated content is really easy.